The ���Star��� is indeed a beach house, but one with a Janus-like face, and multifarious points of attraction: faceted, almost Cubist exterior views and surprisingly intimate
interior spaces. Its street side is desert, its private side,
sea. The architects have said that it slowly ���unfolds��� as
it is approached from the desert.
From the desert side, the house makes us think of Corbusier���s Villa Savoye as it might be rendered by a young
David Hockney, a spare white semi-cantilevered structure flanked, in a glamorously barren landscape, by a
few palms. This fa��ade is opaque but not blank, expressive of a sculptural sensibility in its massing of rectilinear
forms of different volumes and proportions. This enigmatic street elevation is pierced by only two darkened
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